You may have heard recently about the idiot who stole a plane from an airfield in Thunder Bay and flew it over the Can-Am border, across Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and finally Missouri. Well here’s an article I just found about the incident, I think you’ll find it enlightening.
Pilot of Stolen Cessna Wanted U.S. Fighter Jets to Shoot Him Down
By LISA STARK, PIERRE THOMAS, LUIS MARTINEZ and SARAH NETTER
April 7, 2009
The Canadian man who led fighter jets on a chase across six states Monday, flew his stolen plane into the United States. in hopes the military would shoot him down and kill him, according to a Missouri state trooper who apprehended the rogue pilot.
Yavuz Berke, who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets, was taken into custody after he landed on a Missouri highway late today and took off running.
(ABC News)
Missouri state trooper Justin Watson told "Good Morning America" today that 31-year-old Yavuz Berke, formerly known as Adam Leon, wanted to commit suicide, but didn't have the courage to do it himself.
"His idea was to fly the aircraft into the United States where he would be shot down," Watson said. "He stated several times that at any time he thought he was going to be shot down."
And he came close several times, Watson said.
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What an Idiot.
-Graydon
8 comments:
yeah, I know! pretty dumb.
Lol, that's why he got on the news.
Even though, you have to give the guy credit for origionality as well as a sense of style.
I mean, think about it, if you were going to commit suicide which option would you pick?
A) Hanging yourself
B) Telling your sister that a given dress makes her look fat.
or
C) Being shot out of the air after a daring dogfight by a squadron of F-22s.
I dunno, there's worse ways to go...
Sophia ~ Yeah, if that was his goal, he NAILED it!
Sam ~ F-16s... and technically, there wasn't a squadron, there was only two. A squadron is usually somewhere around a dozen planes :-)
I guess you're right, it would be rather inglorious if they only sent up a stupid little third generation fighter to take you down instead of something cool...
4th gen :-)
I don't think F-22 are so hot myself, seeing that one has crashed already. What happened there?
Actually, this is the second F-22 crash already to my knowledge, David. crashing planes is not that rare an event, particularly when it's a relatively new airplane. The only reason you hear about F-22 crashes a lot, is that they cost upwards of $140 million... without training, equipment or spare parts :-)
The other forefront US fighters, the F-16 and F-35 (F-35 in development) only cost $19 million and $30-$40 million respectively so you don't hear about them a lot.
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